"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."

Empathy, First, Grief

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"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."

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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

Jay Woodman, British Motivational Speaker

Empathy, Perspective, War, Reality

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

Barack Obama, American President

Empathy, God, People, Day, Grace

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Empathy, Humanity, Living

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Empathy, Understanding, Judgment, Life

"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

Anais Nin, American Author

Empathy, Act, Being, Fate, Poverty

"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Empathy, Connection, Love, Understanding

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Empathy, Pain, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Empathy, Shoes, Sores, Individuality

"Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Empathy, Love, Compassion, Healing, Spirit

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Empathy, Problem, Indifference, Selfishness

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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

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"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."

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"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

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